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ruvviks · 6 months ago

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// oc deep dive.

tagged by; @aztarion and @devilbrakers, thank you so much!!

tagging; @mojaves, @deadrlngers, @ordinarymaine, @claudiawolf, @adelaidedrubman and YOU!

What common/uncommon fear do they have?

Nathan has a lot of fears stemming from his paranoia. Tangible ones such as getting captured or killed by MOBIUS, his friends walking away from him, or someone following him home; as well as more unrealistic ones, such as somehow ending up back in STEM, or getting stuck in a time loop, or a giant sinkhole all the way to the core of the earth opening up right at his feet.

It also happens often enough that certain actions don’t necessarily scare him, but make him uncomfortable or highly on edge (often with good reason); think of someone locking the door of the room he’s in– especially when it’s just them two– or getting too close without warning. He often fears people he gets too close to will end up treating him like the Administrator did, which is why it takes a while for him to let Sebastian get any closer physically, despite warming up to him relatively fast.

A more uncommon fear he has is waking up one morning and having lost one of his senses or his ability to speak. Aside from the mental erosion that had become a growing issue among Union citizens, MOBIUS observed a similar kind of process in its agents who regularly jumped in and out of STEM for general maintenance and the like– presumably caused by the constant changes in brain activity, which more than often led to exactly what Nathan’s fear mentioned above describes. While he was among the agents who worked both in and outside of STEM on the Union environment, he was lucky enough to never suffer the consequences.

Lastly, he is deadly afraid of Anima. Despite not having shown any other symptom of succumbing to the STEM domination process, Nathan would have started seeing her around sometime before Lily vanished– presumably got her attention after some of his escapades in the secret labs in the Marrow– and he has not been able to sleep soundly in STEM ever since. While his fear of her mostly acts up when he’s in a STEM environment, it definitely translates over to the real world as well; during bad mental health episodes he has auditory hallucinations of her, and she makes regular appearances in his nightmares too.

Do they have any pet peeves?

When people are too passive. Nathan can’t stand it when he’s expected to initiate everything, from conversations to taking action, both in a work context (scheduling meetings, deploying new code) as well as personal context (scheduling to hang out, doing household chores). He also doesn’t like having to constantly ask people to do what they’re supposed to do– though this irritation more than often extends a little too far, to things he is expecting of people but never told them about.

Loud and unexpected noises, especially when done on purpose. Fireworks would be a great example of this, and they piss Nathan off no end. He gets snippy when people raise their voice at him for no reason, or when they keep banging their fist on a surface to get others’ attention.

Getting cut off in traffic. Nathan’s road rage is easily awakened and he can get a little drastic with it. His reflexes are fast enough to brake on time to avoid ending up in someone’s trunk, but will in that same breath speed right back up to crash into them on purpose as revenge for pissing him off.

What are three items you can find in their bedroom?

A large ring binder full of old code snippets, notes from various projects he worked on back at MOBIUS, and all his research ranging from neuroscience all the way to electrical engineering. Nathan is a little old-school in that regard– he’d much rather have all his research physically with him than save it all to some online storage platform and risk losing it like that.

A jigsaw puzzle, made entirely out of different pieces that he’s collected over the years (stolen from others’ puzzles, found in various locations, stolen directly from the store, etc). The full piece would total up to nearly 2000 pieces, though it is still missing a large chunk in the center; the result is an abstract piece containing mostly darker colors, though with various bursts of color scattered around like flowers in a field. Nathan isn’t the artistic type, but the project keeps him busy and he considers it a type of self-expression.

The knife he killed his parents with when he was sixteen years old. He’s not entirely sure why he kept it all those years– perhaps to remind himself what got him to where he is now, or because it’s the only thing he still has from that time of his life. Either way, it’s kept safe in the top drawer of his nightstand, easy enough to reach in case someone breaks into his apartment.

What do they notice first in a person?

First: State of mind, overall mood. How approachable do they look; can he afford to lower his guard or does he need to tread with caution, can he get close without worrying about a knife to the stomach or should he keep his distance? Nathan rarely shows immediate interest in someone’s overall personality, he would rather want to know which of their emotions he’s gonna have to deal with during their interaction(s).

Second: Body language. Ties in with the first thing mentioned– cautiously watching for threats, waiting to see if they make a move to touch (or harm) him so he can step out of their range. But it also extends a little further; Nathan tends to mimic others’ body language in conversation to make himself appear more approachable. If someone gestures a lot, he will do the same.

Third: Their smile, if relevant. Smiling is an eye-catching action to him, since he’s not one to quickly do so himself. It’s attractive to him; if someone smiles at him, you’ll be able to catch him staring.

Fourth: Scars, and other (skin) details. Nathan isn’t one to ask about them, of course– but they’ll catch his attention anyway, for a brief moment, since some of them already tell a story on their own even without words.

Fifth: Nervous tics, if relevant. By this point he’s been in conversation long enough to pick up on the little details– a slight thrill or shakiness to their voice, a thumb running over the side of their index finger, a nose twitch. In some cases it eases his mind, knowing the other person isn’t confident in their conversation either; in other cases it sets off alarms in his mind, and makes him wonder if there’s more going on than what they’re showing or telling him.

On a scale of 1 to 10, how high is their pain tolerance?

Physically: 7. While he doesn’t quite look like it, Nathan can take a hit or two. Most of his injuries happen in STEM– though with the way the technology works, the pain is very much real, and in some cases the scars are lasting even in the real world despite the damage having been sustained in STEM. To an extent, Nathan even enjoys the pain; it’s grounding for him, and keeps him from dissociating. When it gets too much to handle he simply drinks it away.

Mentally: 10. Nathan’s life has been a constant downward spiral; sent to a youth detention center after being wrongfully accused of killing his younger sister, and he was bullied relentlessly there, which continued until long after his release both at school and at home. At MOBIUS, he was required to work shifts in their HQ as well as in the Marrow, in the Union STEM environment– he was required to be mentally strong, or he would have already started suffering from mental erosion by long-term STEM exposure after his first few trips in. It takes a lot to break him (or so he likes to believe).

Emotionally: 4. Once you get past all the barriers, Nathan is pretty sensitive. He doesn’t deal well with rejection or misunderstanding, and is prone to assuming things are all his fault the second something goes wrong. It’s easy to upset him, though he won’t easily show; but the damage often takes a while to repair.

Do they go into fight or flight mode when under pressure? (Or freeze or fawn?)

Fight, more than often; though it may appear as flight at first, since Nathan’s favored combat approach is stealth and he will always find cover before doing anything rash. In certain cases, however, he would be more likely to freeze; especially anything related to Anima or an enemy type like her, where fighting is out of the question, and he knows that a single wrong move can mean his demise.

It translates to non-combat situations too– often willing to talk to people but his initial response is to get defensive and close himself off, and if not given a moment to regain himself it can lead to either fighting or freezing; biting back with similar ferocity or shutting down altogether, unable to pick up his rational train of thought in the heat of the moment.

It really depends on the type of confrontation, though; taking his own state of mind and who else is involved into consideration. He’s known to fawn when a situation starts feeling a little too familiar– generally surrounding the abuse he suffered from partially his parents, but mostly the Administrator.

What animal represents them best?

Wolf; bordering on dog motif, but cautiously so, requiring infinite patience and understanding to win his trust. Nathan is loyal and guarding to those he cares about, but he values his freedom– his choices and decisions are his and his alone, and anyone who tries to take that away from him will suffer the necessary consequences.

How would a stranger likely describe them?

Curious, above anything else. Distant, reserved; surprisingly well-spoken, almost technical in his interactions with others as if the whole conversation is pre-programmed in his mind. Nathan isn’t necessarily cold towards others, but people would also not be quick to describe him as kind; though there is a certain warmth to the way he speaks and looks at people, despite the fact he very rarely smiles and isn’t one to quickly compliment someone else.

Appearance-wise, people tend to notice the white strands in his black hair first. They’re clustered at the front of his head, and match with the white hairs in his left eyebrow and the white eyelashes in the outer corner of his left eye. Nathan has very pale and rough skin, patchy but dark facial hair covering up most of his acne (/scarring); and part of the skin around his left eyebrow is lacking pigment, though it’s a little hard to see. He has very pale and bright blue eyes, which can be a little unnerving when staring at them for too long. Many people cannot maintain eye contact with him for very long.

Do they have any hobbies?

Nathan’s career is directly intertwined with his hobbies, and he enjoys working on code even long after cutting ties with MOBIUS. Software development, application optimization– his laptop runs on an operating system that he coded entirely himself, and whenever he has some time to spare he can be found tweaking and optimizing it and adding new features.

To no one’s surprise, he’s a gamer. Shooters, roguelikes, survival horror– he does not play all too often as his schedule often doesn’t allow for it, but he generally doesn’t have a hard time playing on higher difficulties and enjoys the challenge. Nathan has tried his hand at game design and development too, but stopped quickly when he found it too similar to developing the Union environment in STEM.

And last, surprisingly, would be writing. Journaling, some sort of attempt at poetry, or articles he would want to send in to some website or appropriate magazine but never does– a lot of Nathan’s writing is for his eyes alone, but it helps as an outlet, it keeps him grounded. For a while after leaving MOBIUS, he worked on writing tech manuals for various employers to earn some extra cash, which also ties directly into his interests.

#tag games #ask:nathan #using his full name in the banner to fill up all the empty space but it feels so funny like no one calls him that. no one calls him that #idk who's already done this i'm very out of the loop but hi =] until tumblr fixes itself my brain will only let me tag 5 people #in stuff like this so if you see this and i haven't tagged you. you are tagged now. i am tagging you in my mind palace #anyway hi =] i love nathan he is a little bit of a freak a little bit of a weirdo but that's part of his charm #possibly autistic but he's got a job so he doesn't really care about that right now #to me nathan is the same sort of oc flavor as vitali is but it's hard to explain. they both carry this energy around that makes them #fit very well in one specific environment if that makes sense?? vitali being a corpo boy nathan being lead STEM developer #and to then see them outside of that environment kind of makes them feel out of place in a very similar way as #how they themselves feel a little alienated from the rest of the world #taught to do what they do and when expected to function outside of that reality and mingle with the crowds #they don't really know what to do with themselves etc etc. does that make sense. i hope it does #either way. for nathan it really shows in how he struggles connecting with his friends and why he ends up #latching on to ruben so much once he allows him to move in with him. there's SO many parallels between them #and ruben is also a guy who grew up dedicating his life to one thing only and now he doesn't know what else there is for him #that's why they work so well together... both struggling to find purpose and connection. you know what i mean #ok i've said enough now but just know i could easily write an essay or two about this guy

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morninkim · 11 months ago

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Reintroducing the Super Team Ganbarengers!!

Using the new GanBraces (developed and patented by The Gemini Company™) five candidates were chosen as ambassadors and representatives of The Gemini Company™'s newest superhero brand/team. The team work together with their Ganba-Machines (also developed and patented by The Gemini Company™) to protect Shin Tokyo from the encroaching interdimensional Kaijin threat!

#my art #my ocs #ganbarengers #neo toku #power rangers #super sentai #toku ocs #only took me uh. *checks watch* 7 months to finish all five lmao #now gimme another 7 to do the rest of the heroes/otherwise from this universe lmaoo #probably gonna either redo hideki and genji to match these guys or have a crack at finally putting ganbaregrand to paper #thought about him a lil bit and i think he's a fun addition to the story #but isnt like. too major a character like the main five ganbas + the JUMPers

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theflowerofthecommonwealth · 2 months ago

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Nick: (Seated on one of the sofas in Sanctuary, fiddling with his metal hand using his screwdriver)

Jasmine: (Curled up against her dad like a cozy kitten, reading a book)

Piper: (Knocks on the doorframe) “Hey, hey kiddo! Isn’t today Cinco de Mayo? Happy Cinco de Mayo!!!”

Jasmine: (Looks confused for half a second) “…..Oh right, it’s Cinco de Mayo.” (Sets down her book) “Thank you.”

Hancock: (Is standing behind Piper with Preston right next to him) “We have anything special planned for today?”

Jasmine: “Umm… No…? I honestly forgot today was Cinco de Mayo.”

Preston: “You forgot!? Why???”

Jasmine: “Cause I’m from Chihuahua, not Puebla. Cinco de Mayo is a celebration in Puebla Mexico because they fended off the invading French army. It’s called La Batalla de Puebla.”

Nick: (Proudly listens in on his little girl talking about her culture like the proud RoboDad he is)

Preston: (Shows her a prewar Cinco de Mayo poster) “So why were there so many of these scattered about?”

Jasmine: (Purses her lips together) “Alcohol companies wanted an excuse to sell more drinks I guess. So having another fiesta day where people drink a lot helped with that.”

Piper: (Nods along) “Ah okay… But you can still celebrate it, right?”

Jasmine: (Smiles brightly) “Of course! But uh, I dunno what I’m supposed to do exactly to celebrate…” (Shrugs her shoulders) “Punch an innocent French person??? Fire gunshots into the air??? Take shots of tequila???”

Hancock: “Taking shots? Hell yeah, we can take some drink shots to celebrate!!!”

Jasmine: (Gets up and throws her hands in the air) “YAY!!!!” (Starts to run to the door)

Nick: (Quickly gets up to snatch his daughter by the back of her shirt like he’s a mother cat scruffing a kitten) “NO!!!”

Jasmine: (Pouts and crosses her arms) “Awwww…”

Nick: (Scowls at Hancock) “Don’t give alcohol to my daughter, even on Cinco de Mayo!!!”

Hancock: (Raises his hands in surrender)

Jasmine: (Waves her hands in the air) “If y’all really wanted to impress me- you can tell me Happy Independence Day on the 16th of September!”

Nick: (Holds her close in his arms) “We will, kiddo. But for now, maybe we can go and make a piñata to celebrate.”

Jasmine: (Kicks her feet with excitement) “Ooooh! Yes please!!!”

#Much like Jasmine- I forgot that today was Cinco de Mayo cause my family is also not from Puebla Mexico.#So I was wondering why my neighbors were staring at me in awe and wonder when I passed by them during my daily walk.#It’s cause I was wearing one of my Mexican shirts. I wasn’t wearing it because it was Cinco de Mayo though.#I just either wear nerdy shirts of video game and movie characters or artisanal embroidered Mexican shirts on a daily basis.#It wasn’t until someone pointed at my shirt and went “Oh! For Cinco de Mayo!” Did I realize what day it was.#I honestly think it’s endearing that Americans try to celebrate and wish me a Happy Cinco de Mayo.#I see more Mexicans also celebrating it. But just cause the Americans are. Because it’s a wonderful small business and bonding opportunity.#Just buy your tacos from ACTUAL taco trucks and stands and restaurants plz. Don’t go to Taco Bell.#Anyways. I think Nick being proud of his kid is very sweet.#He is always ready to listen in and take notes to better understand her culture. Same goes for the rest of her new family.#fallout #fallout 4 #fo4 #nick valentine #john hancock #piper wright #preston garvey #preston #fallout 4 oc #fo4 original character #fallout 4 original character #fo4 oc #fallout original character #fallout oc

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blujaydoodles · 1 year ago

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followup to this crossover doodle that I've been thinking about since the first one, lol. tfw the person whose house you accidentally broke into turned out to be so chill that you almost forgot she's got other party members you're still gonna have to explain yourself to :Ic

#dnd #dungeons and dragons #character art #dragonborn #gnome #rogue #wizard #a smoothie #here is the trouble with having adhd and trying to do art:#I opened csp to EITHER do new felix art OR draw something from the last session of mel's campaign (which was excellent)#and what I ended up doing was finishing this meme I started months ago. naturally. lmao #anyway I don't really have any solid thoughts about this crossover or where it would possibly go from here #the idea of the rest of the party waking up the next morning and there's A Guy there for ??? reasons was just funny to me #melliwyk-- noticing dawn breaking while they were talking: tsk. I'm going to get yelled at 🙄#correct but for the wrong reasons (this time). who is this GUY. MELLIWYK. what do you mean he BROKE IN #zhartook #my OCs #felix #melliwyk #noncanon shenanigans #dungeons and doodles

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s2pdoktopus · 6 months ago

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Drawing a different ship absolutely did not work in getting me off the rarepair hell.

#hello darkness my old friend. scrolling through the same arts in pixiv again.#i guess i'll just rest my case and learn how to draw them #maybe i'll learn how to draw muscles now since those guys either show a lot of skin #ir wears tight clothes #sorry cu. i refuse to draw you in your aloha shirt #my ocs sitting in the corner of my mind. drinking lemonade and enjoying the break from me

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twilightarcade · 11 days ago

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it's absolutely vital that you have a few ocs you bring out exclusively for artfight then never ever again

#wordstag #ok you see. I face a dilemma because like. On One Hand. Idrc about getting any of my ocs drawn for artfight #cuz like. Well I barely draw them as is and when I do draw them it's either a hot mess or some vaguely thought out lore chunk #that will change within the next year. BUT☝️ I do figure it would be inconsiderate of me to come onto artfight with 0 ocs because.. whags #even the point you know.#Enter the like 10 ocs I have with little to no lore nor active story development. Which I feel bad for using those guys but also in zero #universe am I refreshing refs in time for the Girls. Sorry girls.#i think we can keep like. Two of them. But the rest I'm shoving in a pit.#idk. I like artfight but I'm also not Huge on drawn comprehensive refs. You know.#Like if i forget or add a detail that was actually an act of god and also intended. Naturally. And also I just don't draw stuff Like That #every year I drift very slowly away from art fight and I fear one year I'll leave it entirely

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jrueships · 10 months ago

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Do you have any ocs? You play 2k?

i did play 2k!!!! i mean.. i play 2k13 2k bcs it has pg and it's offline bcs im unwell and love the dying out practice of inviting ppl over to play games still but 😭 it still counts, right?? anyhow! im not a big oc guy, like i don't have a lot of them or my own universe of them, but im also not a self insert kinda guy (no shade to anyone who is any of this, i think it's all rlly cool and wish i had to creativity to do so as well!) so i kinda just made this dude

his first name is THE and his last name is SHRIMP, and he's like 5'3 . He's number 11 on the raptors and i made him solely to cause a rift in kyle/demar for ship drama (it's ok tho bcs he only makes kyle/demar stronger by being an evil division) (plus his girlfriend is denver levins so he rlly just kinda tried breaking kyle/demar up as a social experiment or smthing idk he's insane)

#hes kinda just kelly oubre but more evil lol #i didnt rlly know who kelly was back then i just knew guys who bleach their hair are evil and went off that #using nbas crazy hair color options #hes not rlly an oc like i dont have a backstory or depth to him #he likes torturing things and getting bitches bcs he does #i have a semi the wire oc but like hes not constructed either and i made him cus my irl friends made ones too #thats rlly the only reason why ill ever make an oc is bcs it's part of a group activity #anyways this is old art srry #why did i not color the shirt omg red or the beautiful black and gold jersey wouldve popped here im so stupid #this is why i hate looking at my posts #thank u for asking tho anon !! im surprised u remembered me mentioning my 2k playing!#playing is putting it lightly.. i only play 2k13 bcs u can grind without it being pay 2 win #that's why THE SHRIMP is THE SHRIMP #u can kick ass and be the size of a speck. it's so fun #2K13 BEST 2K! CHANGE MY MIND #rest easy jak knight. denver levins will never be forgotten

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hounds-and-rabbits · 1 month ago

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decided at seven in the morning that i draw too much art of bishop going through The Horrors so i just drew him eepy

in the au where he exists, he sleeps on the floor, and shares part of asuka's closet because they ran out of room. don't worry, he's fine.

rendered version below

this is my pride and joy, the closest i can get to rendered lighting on MS paint. took me an eternity and a half.

#hungreyanpost #neon genesis evangelion #oc art #neon genesis evangelion oc #the way i drew the hair on his legs lowkey reminds me of #kel omori #he literally sticks out like a sore thumb among the cast #irony because part of his character is being a tightrope act between blending in and standing out #he also gets up before the rest of the cast like a goddamn cryptid #but then again the rest of the pilots aren't normal either #through our sin the heavens are left empty

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andromedaexists · 7 months ago

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It’s only a second before they move in tandem, Icarus’ body seamlessly working around Apollon as if the blond was simply an extension of himself. His eyes roam as they dance, grazing over the warm tan of Apollon’s skin and cataloging his blemishes—reminders that he, too, is human.

ΔΆΙΟΣ, chapter 18: The Dance

#art #andi writes #writeblr #call me icarus #oc: icarus #oc: apollon #character art #can y'all tell i'm supposed to be writing? lmao #i saw the base image and went 'oh i need to see icarus and apollon in this' and could not rest until this happened #anyways tell me it looks okay because i'm trying to do more art of my characters and this is me dipping my toes into posting it #and also read daios #it's free on KU #or you can message me and i'll email you a copy #apollon looks taller in this but just know that it's elysian propoganda #that bitch is at least 4" shorter than icarus #i forget if i made icarus 6' or 6' 2 #either way apollon's 5' 8

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rogdona · 2 years ago

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YIPPEEE HERES THE FIRST FEW MONSTERS!! thank u sm @kindercelery and @ideas-4-stories for the ideas!!!🙌💕🙌💕🙌💕

#heres some lore for em since im fitting em in the story; the first ones used to be wolves but got corrupted like the rest of the game #their howling now sounds like either screaming or laughing...second ones are lil fairies who are the first ppl u point at when smths missin #however they are very big gossips and for the right price theyll give u v useful information #anyways if u guys dont like what i came up w feel free to tell me and ill change it #also!! im making the locked up god in a separate post!! havent drawn em yet but i have a few ideas #art #my art #oc tag #oc wolf #oc pixie

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bmpmp3 · 3 months ago

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tbh in general the way i do relationships both among my own ocs and also among some of my fanon is like. 80% of the time everyones in some kinda strong but very ambiguous maybe platonic maybe romantic maybe i dunno. fucking. bizarrely emotionally close but still distant in every other way type coworkers? sorta situation. i have specific relationships i favour among them but im too much of a 2000s 20 volume messy shoujo drama reader so i do love pushing my dolls together and seeing where they go with this

#all this to say the ambiguous tension in half of my bibi + eri or tora drawings is 100% intentional. but what is it? shrugs :)#it does make me feel a bit obvious tho like of course the ambiguous bisexual loooooves ambiguity. orz #some ocs have clearer stuff going on. mickey and su. lia and bibi. and of course in the rare occasion i have a character with like #a sibling they have a sibling relationship etc. altho i dont have enough of those LOL but the rest? it is a mystery #and with fanon i do this a bit too. not as much. but with looser canons like the stuff i usually get really into i do this a bit <3 #i have a multishipper nature so they could be dating. or they could be platonic. they could be rivals. or they could be besties.#even i dont know as im drawing half the time LOL or afterwards either...#no matter what tho everyone is playing together. thats my consistency with my fanon??#everyone is playing and buddies. even if they hate eachother. everything becomes saturday morning cartoons in my hands...#so if u ever wondered whats going on with relationships in my drawings? its this <3

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hurricanek8art · 3 months ago

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Hello, I just glimpsed your tags on a post and no pressure (I myself am. So anxious about this ask rip) but if you would like to talk about your trooper and bounty hunter cousins I would love to hear about them, that sounds like a delightful recipe for a character dynamic (like. Is one essentially betraying the other? Did they come up in a situation where they just went their separate ways? How do they feel about the demands of their jobs putting them at odds/how close were they???)

DO NOT BE ANXIOUS I CRAVE ENCOURAGEMENT TO YAK ABOUT MY STORIES 🥰🥰🥰

Okay SO my Ordo cousins are kind of a mess in the best way family can be, with the added heap of Mandalorian Family Drama on top. A good portion of the story for them came from me being really fascinated by all the lore around the Mandalorians of this era and kinda disappointed with how little we actually know, and then me realizing "hey I accidentally made my Mando cousins look a LOT* like the Ordo brothers completely unintentionally" and then my brain went a-plot-bunnying away and came up with More Lore for my stories that I really need to put down in a coherent form/document. But I had maybe three hours of sleep, I know if I nap that I'm gonna murder my sleep schedule, and my dog is chewing on my desk chair again, so that is not happening here today. 🤣😭

*I'm not kidding, I've changed Jaiga's hair and Devika's makeup/tattoos since I made this, but I mean look:

Accidental cousins go BRRRRRRRR

Aaaaaaand I gotta put this under a wall of text because I have Cannot Summarize in a Brief Succinct Manner Whatsoever Because Infodumping Is Fun problems and I don't wanna take over the dash. If this makes no sense, again, three hours of sleep. 🤣😭

Basic barebones (i say like a liar 🤣😭) backstory: Devika and Jaiga grew up as two of six of the Ordo chieftain's grandkids together and are basically siblings. So Artus Lok becomes Mandalore the Vindicated then turns around and reinvests Mandalore's loyalty to the Sith Empire, Jicoln Cadera falls out with him over it and starts rallying clans. By that point Jek and Rass' part of the family split to do their own thing on Makeb for Reasons I Have Not Determined (I try to be a little canon compliant) so it's just Dev, Jai and Jaiga's older brother Korvun left with their respective parents, and Jicoln shows up to talk Clan Ordo into joining up with his uprising against Vindicated. Their grandpa Kinkaid doesn't like being loyal to the Empire either but doesn't want to turn on Lok, but Devika, who is being groomed as a future successor to the chieftaincy, rallies the clan into supporting Cadera because they're all sick of being used and abused by the Empire—they're Clan Ordo! Their forefather was Mandalore the Preserver, close ally to Revan! He and Clan Ordo helped bring down Darth Nihilus! So why are they bowing and scraping for the Sith when all the Sith have ever done for the Mando'ade is use them as cannon fodder? Speech is awesome, Ordo joins Cadera's rebellion, and when Clan Ordo does something like that, a whole bunch of other clans follow them because of Canderous' continuing legacy of loyalty and honor. They're gonna start a revolution and get them the kriff away from the Empire once and for all!

Which. Obviously. Doesn't happen. And goes very... very... very badly.

Jaiga and Korvun end up the only ones in the chieftain's family to survive the Schism—Jaiga fought, Korvun was born for clan politics but has some mobility issues that make him prefer to stay out of the actual fighting, both have some intense PTSD from losing most of their family. At that point they're sixteen and eighteen and technically traitors, so Clan Ordo gets appointed an "advisor" (read: Lok-approved supervisor) to ensure reparations go smoothly. Korvun takes over the clan chieftaincy but is pretty powerless to affect much without the advisor's approval. Jaiga is "volunteered" as an ijaat-sur'eyir, an honor-seeker, to basically wander the galaxy as an exile, no aid whatsoever from her family or clan, and find a way to regain Clan Ordo's honor and her own. Basically, she gets Zuko'd into a quest to find the Avatar, but the closest thing she gets to an Uncle Iroh is Braden, who gets killed only like six months into her bounty hunter apprenticeship to him, so she has to figure all this stuff out on her own (well, and with her crew). All that time out there alone makes her really bitter, disillusioned with her chances, and resentful of Devika for rallying them into the Schism, though. Because what do they have to show for all that loyalty to Mandalore the Preserver's legacy? Everyone's dead!

...except Devika did not get killed in the Schism.

She managed to get away with only a few scars. She tried to get back and fight for Clan Ordo in the aftermath, but she got betrayed by someone in the clan who felt betrayed by her actions in turn, and ended up in a Zygerrian slave camp for two years until she managed to jerry-rig a transmitter and reported their activities to the nearest Republic army base. SpecForce shows up to clear them out, since they'd been using the post-Treaty of Coruscant chaos to expand their enterprise into Republic territory with Republic citizens, and Dev's efforts in helping fight back get noticed. The leader of Cyclone Squad (made it up for fic purposes!) catches on that she's a Mandalorian who escaped the Schism real fast, but she's a dang good fighter and she went out of her way to save innocent lives, and points her in the direction of Special Forces since she has nowhere else to go and clearly wants to fight. Dev picks up the name Mav Darmani out of worry that if Mand'alor notices her fighting for the Republic that he'll bring the hammer down on whoever is left alive back home, graduates top of her class from Carida, serves a few outer rim tours with Cyclone, then gets transferred to Havoc just in time for All of That Business.

Neither Devika or Jaiga know the other survived the Schism until they both start making the galactic news (for vastly different reasons 😬) and recognize each other. Devika is overjoyed that Jai and Korvun survived. Jaiga wants to kill her for everything that happened. I haven't worked out how the reunion goes but it goes Badly. They're fine as of KotFE (and happily reunited with their other cousins! I can't remember which one but one of the Ordo bros' codex blurbs mentions they were at Darvannis), but it takes a long, long, long time for them to work things out. They're a mess that loves heckling/teasing/driving each other up the kriffin' wall, but I love my mess.

#K8 Rambles about SWTOR #K8 Answers Asks #swtor #I FORGOT TO PUT THE SWTOR TAG ON THIS #WAIT I FORGOT JEKIAH AND RASS TAGS TOO #I TOLD YOU 3 HOURS OF SLEEP 😭😭😭#swtor oc: devika ordo #swtor oc: jaiga ordo #jekiah ordo #rass ordo #ooh i should do one for korvun too he's not a main character but he's important on the same level as quil is to my smuggler so #swtor oc: korvun ordo #i am so sorry this turned into LORE DUMP #if you think it's bad now wait until i start loredumping about aja or my agent chrysali 🤣😭#aja takes up so many of the brain cells but i love writing these two and their slow reconnection with their surviving family #and it gives me a chance to write stuff for jekiah & rass i'm definitely gonna take it. i love the ordo bros give me all the lore broadswor #(i loved them anyway & then aja decided to do a 180 on me by falling head over heels for rass so now i love them even more 🤣)#i was gonna try to post my agent's bio next since she's my imperial main/kinda-sorta second protagonist #but hmm. desire to post dev and jai's bios is strong #the problem with wanting to post these bios is i only have like a handful of year-old screenshots #because they're either all on the harddrive we STILL haven't gotten out of kronk the potato laptop (may he rest in peace o7)#or because i haven't played very far into their respective stories #because aja is PUSHY and SPOILED and INSISTS on me doing the ENTIRE STORY with her NOW #i don't have a favorite oc problem *whistles innocently at the tiny piles of art/writing for the others compared to aja's mountain*

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